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A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, architecture, models, drawings, engravings, &c.
Title
A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, architecture, models, drawings, engravings, &c. / now exhibiting by the artists associated for the relief of their distressed brethren, their widows and children at Mr. Moreing's great room in Maiden-Lane, Covent-Garden.
Published
[London] : Printed by James Harrison, opposite Stationers'-Hall, Ludgate-Street, MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description
16 p. ; 25 cm.
Local Notes
Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v. 3: No. 7 bound with Horace Walpole's catalogues and annotated by him; with additional annotations by John Sheepshanks.
Notes
This edition has the motto "Animum pictura pascit" at the end of the title, above the imprint.
Last entry on p. 16 is no. 214.
Signatures: [A]² B-D²
Provenance
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale, vii.149, to Smith, Lisle Street [London, 1160]; bound in four volumes by Riviere in half green morocco ca. 1850, apparently for John Sheepshanks whose bookplate is in the volumes. Sold at Sotheby's, 2 March 1891 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 826, to Harvey. Volumes 1-2, 4 were purchased by W.S. Lewis in 1925; the third volume in 1928.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T207808
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, 3885
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs - England - London - 1766.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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